I've been quietly sweeping your forum for info for a week or so now, so i'ts probably time for an intro..
firstly a couple of reasons why you wont like me, I'm an Airsofter not a re-enactor and I'm a female who's going to break all the rules by dressing in SS Das Reich uniform! ok now that your bloods boiling and fingers twitching over the keyboard, I'll attempt to acquit myself of the impending firing squad!!
I've collected and bought and sold Russian/Soviet military gear for over 3 years, and done it to death on the collecting front, I have everything I could possibly need or want (apart from a T-64, although I do have a BTR-152 APC) my home is full of military gear and airsoft weapons, Iv'e led a Russian Airsoft team for a couple of years, and I along with 4 friends created the Red Alliance association, which in the first year grew to a few hundred members worldwide, including a few of your fellow re-enactors from the WPFG. I also run the forum at Russian arms info website, and run the English section of airsoftgun Russia, so I'm fairly familiar with military and weapons, all be it Eastern bloc (for now!) I play Airsoft every weekend obsessively! In my home of Cornwall (MIA) and at Ground Zero on the Dorset/Hampshire border and I travel a couple times a year to play in Russia (and to stock up on mil gear to sell back home and real vodka to melt my friends with)
So why am I here hasstling the axis?.. like I said. Iv'e done Russia to death, I recently bought a Tanaka KAR-98 (I'm in love!!) and met Ollie (Byely-volk) on my Airsoft forum, and he came over to my place with his German gear, and that was it really! I'm a complete noob (hate that word!!) but not a stupid one, I prefere to find things out for myself, but would like someone with knowledge on SS Das Reich to just check i'm on the right track with it, a kit and uniform list would be awesome??? amazon books have just got rich on waffen SS sales, and I'm making notes on places to buy, so any assistance there would be great too, books I must read! and places I should buy from ect.
Right I'm going to quietly crawl back to the Kremlin now before the peoples army dispatch the duty car for me, siberia's such a drag this time of year!!!
Again sorry for being a girly! don't shoot me!!!
Eva
. With your Russian knowledge sounds like you will have as much to contribute as much as to learn.
